Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. The alarming rise in infections has spurred American health officials to warn about the risk. In South America, cases of the tropical disease are now decreasing during cooler winter months after […]
A defunct New Mexico spa previously under investigation for potentially exposing clients to HIV through “vampire facials” has been linked to at least three cases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Thursday. In July of last year, the New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) advised former clients of VIP Beauty Salon and Spa […]
Two hunters who ate meat from deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or “zombie deer disease” − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that it can pass from animals to humans. Found in deer in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1990s, chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recorded in […]
NEW YORK – A year after New York City anointed a czar for its war on rats, health officials are seeing a jump in cases of a rare disease linked to rat urine. Sanitation employees, who collect the city’s trash and are frequently exposed to rats, say workers are disparately represented in cases of leptospirosis, […]
Hesitancy around vaccines has spilled over to pet owners in recent years, sparking concern about the resurgence of rabies, a virus that’s nearly always fatal. Some pet owners argue against vaccinating dogs – over concerns that vaccines shorten the canines’ lifespans or beliefs that vaccines can cause autism in dogs. But autism’s spectrum of symptoms […]
On Jan. 1, 2020, public health officials in the United States woke up to the news of a strange new virus in China. They didn’t know what to make of it, but at Columbia University in Manhattan, Dr. Ian Lipkin was already nervous. Lipkin, a virologist, had spent his career studying pathogens and hoping to […]
A person with active tuberculosis visited 26 schools in the Las Vegas area over more than a year, exposing over 600 people to the infectious respiratory disease. Public health officials launched an investigation this month into whether tuberculosis, which takes time to incubate, spread across the desert community during that period. School officials have begun […]
Scientists are narrowing in on the fastest-growing COVID-19 variant, learning more about the strain that has coincided with a rise in cases as Americans head into the holidays. The JN.1 variant now accounts for more than one-fifth of all cases, based on estimates Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the CDC’s […]
